Markdown Server

Markdown-server is a simple web application. It converts markdown file to HTML and response by text/html.

How to use

Runtime Environment

Python:	3.7
pip:	19.1.1

Library Dependencies

See requirements.txt.

Just try

Start server

You don't need any special preparation to try to start server. Just execute below commands.

$ git clone https://github.com/ohbarye/markdown-server
$ cd markdown-server
$ virtualenv .venv
$ source .venv/bin/activate
(.venv)$ pip install -r requirements.txt
(.venv)$ markdownserver
    Bottle v0.12.8 server starting up (using WSGIRefServer())...
    Listening on http://localhost:8009/

Or, you can install from PyPi.

(.venv)$ pip install markdown-server
(.venv)$ markdownserver
    Bottle v0.12.8 server starting up (using WSGIRefServer())...
    Listening on http://localhost:8009/

If server start up successfully, browse below URL and check the converted result.

$ open http://localhost:8009/sample.md

Only Conversion

Additionally, You can use the conversion function alone.

(.venv)$ convert source_md_file target_html_file

Do as you like

Markdown server purvey http://host/[file_name] URL. This corresponds to resources/markdown/[file_name].You can put any markdown file here.
Converted file will be placed to resources/html directory. Generated html file includes CSS so it's ease to distribute.
Environment variables like host name or port number are set in env.py. Edit arbitrarily.
```
ms_port        = '8009'
ms_host        = 'localhost'
```
The default markdown engine is Github flavored Markdown. If you want to use another style, add CSS and edit env.py.
```
css_name       = 'github.css'
markdown_type  = 'gfm'
```